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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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